The Osceola times., 1887-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
CsaRllsd iron VARIES 6saroaA
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


while engaged in his professional duties.
He was president OF the Maine Home O.
pathic Society and vice-president Of the
American Institute Of Homeopathy
Mr.. BIeeAR proposes TO sue the London
Times for libel In connection with the al
legged Parnell letter and kindred publica-
tions, thus bringing the question OF gen.
uineness Of the letter before the courts.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has ordered
aresurvey Of the Las Vegas land grant In
New Mexico.
COLONEL MOORE, Consul General to the
City Of Mexico, leaves for his post Of duty
on the 25th
OK the 2lst Major John t. Blaine, pay
master In the United States army and
brother of James @. Blaine, died at Hot
Springs, Ark.
OK tho 2ist French official was de-
coyed into German territory and arrested
by German police, charged with member
ship in the French Patriotic League.
Great excitement is reported TO exist in
Alsace-Lorraine over the affair 1t has
also created profound sensation in
Paris
OK the 21st James Russell Lowell sailed
from Boston for Europe on the steamer
Pavonia- II is understood that he declines
w oo ~ AOT ONcTstcE VI huTNdTu
University, for which he has been NOM
mated.
AT its session in Washington on the
2lst the National Academy Of Sciences
elected three new members The scient.
lists thus honored are Prof. Bowditch of
Harvard; Prof Mendenhall, of Terre
Haute, Ind, and Prof. George II. Cook, of
Brunswick, Ga.
THE Lord Mayor OF Dublin has called
meeting for the purpose Of taking steps
toward tho erection Of National memo
rial TO Ir. Gladstone
MAJOR F. w. BENTON, OF the Ninth cav.
AIRY, was recently sentenced by u court
martial to be dismissed from the service
for drunkenness. The President has com
muted the sentence TO one years suspen-
sion from rank and duty on half-pay.
SEVENTEEN years ago Bsnj thinner.
man strayed away from home in Reading,
Pa. On the 2lst he returned and found
his wife, who believed him dead, living
with second husb band 1t Is said he will
find Mrs. Zimmerman willing to be re-
claimed.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says that he does not
desire general election to Parliament
until the English mind IA as ripe on the
Irish question as tho Welsh and Scotch
minds are, but that time is rapidly ad =
vancing. Anyhow" he says, ~ am
prepared 70 face anything to defeat coer-
cion.n
IsDIAy AGENT OSBORNE, who recently
killed L. j. Smith, the Indian farmer at
trial before United States commissioner
there. The testimony brought out at the
trial exonerates Osborne, and the COM
missioner says he has no doubt Osborne
was fully justified In his action.
JUsTicR WooDs, OF the United States
Supreme Court, is seriously i'll at Kansas
City, Mo.
THE statement comes direct from the
President himself that he does not want
and will not accept nomination.
A LErTB0 has been received from Prof
Goodwin Smith, OF Oxford University,
favoring commercial union between
Canada and the United States
Archbishop CoRRIoAS has "warned"
the Catholic Herald to cease its defense of
DIR. hcalynn and criticisms unfavorable
TO those who removed him.
WV. OBRIEN, editor OF United Ireland
was to sail for Canada on the cath, to
speak against Lord I.ansdowne's tenantcy y
evictions
Nh. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the mi llionaire,
OF Pittsburgh, Pa, was united in mar
riage on the 2od TO Miss Louise Whitfield,
eldest daughter of Mrs. Fanny d. Whit.
field, at the residence Of the BRIDES mother,
IN New York. They left for European
tour on the steamship Fulda.
BES RICHARDSON, who owns about half
Of Harlem, end is several times million
aire, Is the man wh o was recently swindled
by the "gold brick trick" in New Y ork.
ha rtl1 Lad hat a. q
were worth $1,000 are now at the assay
office on exhibition.
WM b MITCHELL, president of the Ex-
change Bank, of Detroit, Mich, has disap.
peared with all the funds of the concern,
leaving an anxious lot of creditors and
depositors behind HIM.
The Emperor of Germany will lay the
foundation of the new palace of justice in
Berlin ON May 25
TBE Americus Republican Club Of
Pittsburgh, Pa, propose TO celebrate the
sixty-hfth birthday anniversary Of Gen.
cral U. y Grant by a banquet
MA,oR-GENERAL &. G. AuguR announces
his acceptance OF the position of COM
mandant OF the camp during the Nation al
drill NJ Washington.
Ok the ed, Chang Yen Hoon, Chinese
Minister TO Washington, sailed from New
York for Havre, accompanied by four Sec
retaries of legation.
LINpLEY MURRAY, of New York, has
issued a pamphlet, in which he lays claim
10 $4,000, 900 worth of the Reading Rail
road Company's coal lands.
TnE newly appointed Venezuelan Minis
ter, Senior Olivarrio, arrived in Washing
ion on the 23I, and called on Secretary
Bayard, accompanied by the retiring Min
lister. Scnor Soteldo.
President CLEVELAND has directed the
appointment of Surgeon q gorge NJ Strom-
berg, IT, =. A., TO investigate the merits
OF incubation for the prevention of yellow
fever as practised in Mexico and Brazil.
The Sundry Civil Appropriations bill,
passed at the last session of Congress,
provides for this investigation.
Ir Is generally understood at Washing
ton that General John &. Parke will sue
ceed General Merritt, in command of the
Military Academy at West Point Gener-
al Parkc COMMANDED the Ninth army
corps from September 1854 until the close
of the war
TnE troabie between Lord L1nsdowne
and his tenants has been settled, and Ed
itor 'Bricn OF Uaief Ire'dad did no: sail
for Canada.
CDAvID PRESTON, well-known banker
and politician of Michigan, dropped dead
of heart disease at Detroit on the 24th.
RoBERT INcERsoLI. in card, denies
certain chai ges recently made against
him by General George A. Sheridan in his
lecture on ''rhe Modern Pagan"
OK the night OF the % ''Doc'i Levi Will
son, who is widely known through his
famous suit against Piilip l.. Moen, the
barbed-wire manufacturer OF Worcester,